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Going into the December 10th fight card, the talk of course was primarily of two men: Amir Khan and Lamont Peterson, the principals in the main event. Coming out of it, the talk was of three men, Khan, Peterson, and Joseph Cooper the referee whose point deductions made the difference between Khan retaining and losing his junior welterweight world titles.
There were, of course, other factors involved, not the least of them Peterson’s relentlessness, his refusal to be denied or to acknowledge that he was the underdog, his determined stalking and pressing, and in particular the hellacious body shots that he ripped to Khan’s midriff in the second quarter of the fight, a tactic that turned around a fight that was in danger of slipping away from him.
The DC crowd roared with approval when their man was declared the winner.
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